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Tennyson on Brexit?

"“Forward, the Light Brigade!”Was there a man dismayed?Not though the soldier knew   Someone had blundered.   Theirs not to make reply,   Theirs not to reason why,   Theirs but to do and die.   Into the valley of Death   Rode the six hundred."WE have blundered. Even the Light Brigade had to retreat.

David Ainsworth ● 2856d7 Comments

A very timely quotation!

Caroline Whitehead ● 2856d

Well said

Michael Ixer ● 2856d

Good to have a bit of literature here, I'd like to add (and hoping it doesn't discombobulate Martine too severely) that quote from Shelley's Ozymandias  describing the ruin of a statue: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains..."Noy a bad description of May and her government .

Richard Carter ● 2856d

Good to have a bit of literature here, I'd like to add (and hoping it doesn't discombobulate Martine too severely) that quote from Shelley's Ozymandias  describing the ruin of a statue: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains..."Not a bad description of May and her government .

Richard Carter ● 2856d

Richard, you think JRM is an old fogey, but discombobulate is hardly a word you hear every day.  I looked it up and I think bore is a better word myself.Anyway as I am from Warwickshire, I wondered what it’s greatest son would say, maybe “To Brexit or not to Brexit, That is the Question”.

Martine Guy ● 2855d

Ah but Hamlet came from Denmark - now in the EU. So maybe 'To stay or not to Stay, that is the question. Scans better than Brexit?

Jane Carter ● 2855d

I think you might be taking this a bit too seriously.  If you want to say Stay, good for you, but I really wasn’t thinking in depth as to how it scanned.  B for Brexit was good enough for me.

Martine Guy ● 2855d